Zohran Mamdani Elected Mayor of New York City With 50.4% of the Vote, Becoming the City's First Muslim Mayor
On the night of November 4, 2025, voters in New York City, New York, elected Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani as mayor. The Associated Press called the race for Mamdani at 9:34 p.m., about half an hour after polls closed; returns showed him with 50.4% of the vote, ahead of former governor Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, with 41.6%, and Republican Curtis Sliwa with 7.1%.
According to the New York City Board of Elections, more than two million New Yorkers cast ballots, the highest turnout in a city mayoral election since 1969. Mamdani, 34, a state assemblyman from Queens, will become the city's 111th mayor, its first Muslim mayor and its first South Asian mayor, and its youngest mayor in more than a century. He will succeed Mayor Eric Adams and is scheduled to take office on January 1, 2026.
Mamdani won the Democratic nomination in June by defeating Cuomo in the primary, and campaigned on the cost of living, promising a rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments, free buses and free child care. His victory came as Democrats prevailed in the night's other major races across the country.
In his victory speech, he told supporters that New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants and powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant, adding that to get to any of them, opponents would have to get through all of them.
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Source: New York City Board of Elections
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